Apache version has not updated after upgrade?

Hi,

I've just implemented upgrade process from httpd 2.0.40-8 to httpd 2.0.46 on
RHL8. However, while I ran the command 'httpd -v', it displayed the version
no. before update (i.e. 2.0.40-8). Did it mean the upgrade was failure?!

Thanks,

Keith

Any idea?

"Keith" <keithtin@yahoo.com.hk> ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D:3f16c180$1@shknews01...
> Hi,
>
> I've just implemented upgrade process from httpd 2.0.40-8 to httpd 2.0.46
on
> RHL8. However, while I ran the command 'httpd -v', it displayed the
version
> no. before update (i.e. 2.0.40-8). Did it mean the upgrade was failure?!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Keith
>
>

Keith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just implemented upgrade process from httpd 2.0.40-8 to httpd 2.0.46 on
> RHL8. However, while I ran the command 'httpd -v', it displayed the version
> no. before update (i.e. 2.0.40-8). Did it mean the upgrade was failure?!

The latest-and-greatest httpd release in the 'rawhide' directory tree on
Red Hat's FTP site is 2.0.45-14. So did you create your own
'httpd-2.0.46-?.i386.rpm' somehow so that you could build/install
version 2.0.46?

If you did NOT install 2.0.46 via RPMs, there is a good chance you've
ended up with some sort of weird mixture of the previous 2.0.40 stuff
and the newly installed 2.0.46 stuff. IOW, there's a chance that neither
version will work correctly at this point.

FWIW, on a Red Hat Linux box, you should *ALWAYS* use the 'rpm' package
manager program to install, upgrade, remove, etc. software packages.
This means you must always locate RPMs, or create your own RPMs, that
contain the software packages you want to install. If you do use RPMs to
install/update your software, you run the very real risk of corrupting
the system state so badly that the RH box fails to run certain apps, or
apps exhibit strange behaviors when they run, etc. In the end, you end
up having to completely reinstall the Red Hat distro from scratch in
order to return the system to a more-or-less stable state.

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Jim

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Jim Fischer wrote:
>
> ... If you do use RPMs to
> install/update your software, you run the very real risk of corrupting
> the system state so badly that the RH box fails to run certain apps, or
> apps exhibit strange behaviors when they run, etc.

For some reason (senior moment? <g>) I failed to write the word "not" in
this sentence. This sentence was /supposed/ to read:

If you do NOT use RPMs to install/update your software, ...

I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

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Jim

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